More exhibitions, including Marlene Dumas and William Tillyer

Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden, Tate Modern, London

At her best, the South African artist creates riveting close-up photo-based images in dirty colours where the personal and political, painterly and conceptual, converge. At other times, the polemical approach is formulaic, but no one interested in contemporary figuration should miss this retrospective. Final week. tate.org.uk, 020 7887 8888, to May 10

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William Tillyer: The Palmer Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

Subtitled "Clouds that Drop Fatness on the Earth", Tillyer's paintings alluding to Samuel Palmer continue his long engagement with the English landscape and especially with clouds. His abstracted cloudscapes suffused with golden light are produced by pushing acrylic paint through a fabric mesh hanging from the ceiling, and vibrantly document their own process, breaking through the grid-like picture plane implied by the mesh and into the real world. jacobsongallery.com, 020 7734 3431, to May 30

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Michal Rovner, Pace Gallery, London

The Israeli artist does not confront politics directly, but themes of dislocation and the persistence of history are always there in her videos, sculptures and installations. Here, in a new large-scale multi-screen work titled "Panorama", she combines representation of brooding human figures with landscape elements in lyrical near-abstractions. pacegallery.com, 020 3206 7613, to June 15

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Alexander Calder, Dominique Levy Gallery, London

Just one work here: the two-by-four-metre mobile "Blue and Yellow Among Reds" hovers above the viewer in a dance of colours and shapes, predominantly suspended and scattered bright red circles interlaced with tiers of white, black, sky blue and golden yellow, twisting under and over each other: at once monumental, refined, delicate, free. The display comes ahead of Tate Modern's major autumn Calder show. dominiquelevy.com, 020 3696 5910, to September 1

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Francis Bacon and the Masters, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich

The UK's most stimulating, alluring, unexpected and insightful current painting show: stellar Bacon works from private and public collections alongside major loans of Rembrandt, Velazquez, Matisse, Picasso, Soutine and others from the Hermitage in St Petersburg. The creative drama by which Bacon distilled so many disparate elements and influences into his own idiosyncratic new language unfurls wonderfully. "I'm like a grinding machine", Bacon said; "I've looked at everything, and everything I've seen has gone in and been ground up very fine." scva.ac.uk, 01603 593199, to July 26

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